Electric aviation has faced a single, unresolved bottleneck: proving to regulators that high-energy propulsion batteries can safely contain worst-case failures.

Battery swapping has long been one of those holy grail solutions for addressing the problem of range anxiety in electric vehicles. It’s been tried a number of times over the past 15 years and while ...

Hyundai Mobis has patented a battery module cooling structure for vehicles. The design includes a cooling block under the battery module to reduce heat, with specific features like inlet and outlet ...

General Motors has announced a significant uptick in production of its Ultium battery modules, with CEO Mary Barra pointing to a 300-percent increase over the past six months. The announcement was ...

Vehicle manufacturers typically demand battery lifetimes exceeding 10 years, and they also specify the required usable battery capacity. The challenge to the battery system designer is to squeeze the ...

When I learned that CATL had given up on its Choco-SEBs, it was clear that Ample was all alone in the battery module swapping business. The Chinese giant lost a massive opportunity to set a world ...

In October 2024, the Free2Move director Miguel Barquilla told the newspaper El Español that his car-sharing company would put Ample's battery module swapping tech to work in Madrid by December of that ...